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Apple tells EU it has five different App Stores, not just one (9to5mac.com)

Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform (www.platformer.news)

Do conservative in other countries also push for school uniforms ?

So France is starting an “experimental school uniform program” Sauce Do other countries also have that trend were conservative push for a school uniform rather than letting kids wear what they like ?

Samsung debuts the world's first transparent MicroLED screen at CES 2024 (www.engadget.com)

Eminem concert (lemmy.world)

Alaska Airlines flight forced to make emergency landing after window blows out in mid-air (www.cbsnews.com)

Games with graphics resembling PS1 or PS2?

So recently I was thinking how games with pixel art graphics are popular nowadays, and I was wondering if there are new games being made with other kinds of “retro” graphics, for example, games that look like the PS1 or PS2 eras....

TIL about Salim Kara, who stole over $2m of coins by using a car antenna and a magnet (www.nofreelunch.co.uk)

The 'Effective Accelerationism' movement doesn't care if humans are replaced by AI as long as they're there to make money from it (www.businessinsider.com)

Cargo ship carrying burning lithium-ion batteries reaches Alaska, but kept offshore for safety (apnews.com)

A large cargo ship with a fire in its hold is being kept 2 miles (3.22 kilometers) offshore of an Alaska port as a precaution while efforts are undertaken to extinguish the flames, the U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday....

More U.S. companies no longer requiring job seekers to have a college degree (www.cbsnews.com)

Employers across a range of industries are dropping a job requirement once considered a ticket to a higher paying job and financial security: a college degree....

The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement (edition.cnn.com)

The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement::The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging that the companies’ artificial intelligence technology illegally copied millions of Times articles to train ChatGPT and other services to provide people with information...

[Duscussion] Post licening to kneecap threads putting ads next to our content.

Ive seen that pixelfed and peertube have the ability to add a licence to content. I think this would be great for everyone so we can get ahead of threads and have collective bargaining power when they inevitable put our content between ads....

Does anyone else like drinking coca cola or any other carbonated drink after the CO2 escapes?

Its weird… I like the sweet/sour taste of soda once the CO2 is gone. People find me very weird for this

Is the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?

Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, CSIRO report finds (www.abc.net.au)

Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, CSIRO report finds::Renewable energy provides the cheapest source of new energy for Australia, a new draft report from the CSIRO and energy market operator has found.

1-bit CPU for ‘super low-performance computer’ launched – sells out promptly (www.tomshardware.com)

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Toilet without borders (i.imgflip.com)

41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! (tech.lgbt)

Just moved to Linux: a follow up

I recently made a post discussing my move to Linux on Fedora, and it’s been going great. But today I think I have now become truly part of this community. I ran a command that borked my bootloader and had to do a fresh install. Learned my lesson with modifying the bootloader without first doing thorough investigation lol....

Is there any future for the GTK-based Desktop Environments? (ludditus.com)

This article was written in the sense of bashing gnome but yet some points seem to be valid. It explains the history of gtk 1 to 4 and the influence of gnome in gtk. I’m not saying gnome is bad here, instead I find this an interesting to read and I’m sharing it.